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Hec.su URL Shortener API

Hec.su offers a URL shortening service, allowing users to create short URLs for use in social media sharing environments. Hec.su's home page displays a stream of the most popular URLs with number of hits. To date Hec.su has processed nearly 3 million hits from roughly 50,000 unique shortened URLs. The Hec.su developer API can be accessed to retrieve specific URL information with response methods available in XML, JSON, and a serialized array. The API usage is limited to 1000 requests per day.

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